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It
was perhaps the most famous road trip since Jack Kerouac’s: An old bus with a
psychedelic paint job, a jug of LSD-laced juice, the author of “Once Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest” in charge, and Kerouac’s driver at the wheel.

It’s
been 49 years since Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters made the trip
from California to New York. Kesey died in 2001; the bus has been rusting away
in Oregon. But now his family wants to restore the bus in time for next summer's 50th anniversary of the trip, which was featured in the Tom Wolfe
book "The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test."

“The bus is essentially the best
icon of the `60’s,” his son, Zane Kesey, told the Associated Press. Read the
full story here.

Photo of Ken Kesey and his bus, "Further," in 1997, by Jeff Barnard/Associated Press.